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Pitt and Carnegie Mellon are collaborating with NVIDIA to launch its inaugural AI Tech Community

The University will lead a center focused on computational opportunities in the health and learning sciences, including applications of AI in clinical medicine, biomanufacturing and K-12 education.

  • University News
  • Technology & Science
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • It's Possible at Pitt
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How Pitt is helping the commonwealth thrive in an increasingly digital world

The University joined a Greater Pittsburgh Digital Inclusion Alliance project to increase access to internet in 11 rural Pennsylvania counties.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • It's Possible at Pitt
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A new Pitt class is taking engineering to greater heights

Space engineering is just the first Swanson School course in a new effort to train students for the growing demand in aerospace and other industries.

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  • Technology & Science
  • Space
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Pitt Space is bringing researchers together at the start of a new space race

The new initiative will focus on research and workforce development in space engineering, biomedicine and science.

  • Technology & Science
  • Space
  • McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
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Researchers built an autonomous system to help detect the most urgent victims in mass casualty events

The Pitt and Carnegie Mellon team will keep testing and readying its robots for real-world missions as part of a three-year DARPA Triage Challenge.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Technology & Science
  • School of Medicine
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
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Experts are worried about cyber threats to infrastructure. This Pitt program is raising awareness.

The SHURE-Grid program brought together students from a variety of majors to create educational tools about designing with cybersecurity in mind.

  • Technology & Science
  • Swanson School of Engineering
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • It's Possible at Pitt
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The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center earned an NIH grant to fund a third-generation Anton supercomputer

The five-year award will allow noncommercial biomedical researchers to use the system at no cost.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • It's Possible at Pitt
Ryan Tate poses with an apparatus of glass tubing

If it’s glass, Ryan Tate can make it

Pitt’s scientific glassblower crafts and repairs the flasks, pipes and apparatuses that make University research labs function.

  • Technology & Science
  • Staff
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Red and blue nova

A rare stellar explosion will soon reveal a ‘new’ star. Here’s how to see it.

Visible with the naked eye, the nova will be the brightest one most people ever see, says Pitt astronomer Carlos Badenes.

  • Technology & Science
  • Space
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Pitt alumna Kate Moran is using technical innovation to combat climate change

The award-winning researcher and engineer’s adventures have included advising the Obama administration and taking Arctic expeditions to advocate for global sustainability.

  • Technology & Science
  • Global
  • Sustainability
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Pitt’s national patent ranking improved to No. 14 in 2023

Some 114 patents put the University up two spots on the National Academy of Inventors list.

  • Technology & Science
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Michele V. Manuel is the first woman U. S. Steel Dean of the Swanson School of Engineering

The award-winning materials engineer, innovator and leader joins Pitt from the University of Florida Sept. 1.

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  • Technology & Science
  • Provost
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Pittsburgh high schoolers spend a summer engaged in STEM through this Pitt program

Students learn more than just lab work through Pitt Bio Outreach, which also provides mentoring as they prepare for college and fosters community connections.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Pitt BioForge CEO Ken Gabriel participates in a four-person panel

A Brookings Institution event highlighted Pittsburgh’s growth as a life sciences leader

Chancellor Joan Gabel and Pitt BioForge CEO Ken Gabriel were among the speakers at the recent forum, which centered on innovative economic development in the region.

  • Technology & Science
  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
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How nanotubes, nanoparticles and antibodies are used to detect tiny amounts of fentanyl

This Pitt-developed sensor is portable, affordable and orders of magnitude more sensitive than the next-best thing.

  • Technology & Science
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
A map is magnified to show the structure of matter in our universe

The first Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument results made the most precise measurement yet of our expanding universe

Using the DESI, researchers have made the largest 3D map of our universe and world-leading measurements of dark energy, the mysterious cause of its accelerating expansion.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • Space
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Pitt has 2 new Goldwater Scholars

The prestigious scholarship is awarded to sophomores and juniors who plan to pursue research careers in the sciences and engineering fields. Meet our winners.

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  • Technology & Science
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
A DellEMC computing system

A Dell Technologies gift will provide Pittsburgh medical researchers with expanded computational power

A new high-performance computer system in the Innovation Hub for Health Science Medical Research will help improve outcomes for patients.

  • Technology & Science
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
Synychych wears a VR headset to test her scuba diving application, displayed on a projector screen

An undergrad from Ukraine is exploring how VR might comfort those with PTSD

Moved by her own experiences with trauma, Sofiya Synychych developed a meditative application with help from Pitt-Bradford faculty.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Technology & Science
  • Pitt-Bradford
Greg Delgoffe and Leah Byrne

2 Pitt faculty were elected Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors

Leah Byrne and Greg Delgoffe of the School of Medicine were honored for their innovations in cell and gene therapy.

  • Technology & Science